Mid Market Account Executive German Speaking (fmd)

As a Mid-Market Account Executive - DACH (f/m/d) youll drive Contentfuls growth by leading the end-to-end sales process with our top-tier clients. Youll be instrumental in driving adoption and engagement finding new revenue opportunities and creating customer enablement initiatives within a few named accounts. Youll work closely with our partnership and customer success team to lead a consultative sales process by speaking to professional developers and business leaders in the DACH markets.

This role will require you to be in our Central London office 2 or 3 times a week.

• Self-generation of the pipeline through outbound motions in conjunction with marketing and BDR teams to help create new opportunities in regional accounts
• Drive expansion opportunities with existing clients in the DACH (Germany Austria & Switzerland) territory.
• Grow existing accounts by leveraging relationships and following our comprehensive land and expand sales model
• Meet quarterly and annual sales goals by developing an account strategy and pipeline managing internal and client processes maintaining sales reports developing market and competitor knowledge delivering presentations to customers and creating sales proposals
• Manage RFI/RFQ requests with Contentful internal and customer teams
• Refine and evolve our land-and-expand model in collaboration with Sales Partnerships and Customer Success teams
• Seek to understand the digital experience challenges of prospects and clients while aligning the ROI of Contentful with those challenges to ensure a value-based selling approach
• Work closely with Sales Engineers and Solution Architects to uncover technical challenges and opportunities
• Develop innovative proposals position complex pricing structures and negotiate contracts and deal-closing requirements quickly and efficiently
• Work closely with customer success & marketing teams to ensure that best practices of Contentful are shared and implemented at the respective customer

• 3 years of experience selling a technical platform working as a Sales Development Representative (SDR) Business Development Representative (BDR) and/or Account Executive
• 1 years of individual quota-carrying experience
• 1 years of growing and expanding existing customer accounts
• Demonstrated expertise in closing $60-100k opportunities
• Ability to drive your own pipeline generation with outbound capabilities

Nice To Have:

• • Experience working with Partner ecosystems to work with customers.
  • Understanding and experience working in product-led growth sales motions
  • Native German language skills

More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link:.

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